Domestic Animal

Wannsee: a rich island of idyllic peace, just next to the economic capital of Europe. Between the green gardens and the slow traffic of fancy cars, next to the tranquillity of the lake and inside a modern villa, lives Billie Leibbrandt. Georg’s six-figures-salary, a clever son attending the best schools, an englishspeaking Au-Pair able of taking care of his needs, a small gallery where she can expose the art she likes: Billie loves her life and has never questioned it. One day, a summer morning like every other one, the woman finds a strip of blood in the kitchen, which leads to Athena, the family dog.

Credits

Cast:

Bea Brocks

Alexander Gier

Nikola J. Dahlke

Olivia Papoli-Barawati

Christian Harting

Script:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Marina Ghersinich

Camera:

Hanife Koch

Editing:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Producer:

Lorenzo Gandolfo

Marina Ghersinich

Sound:

Alex Feldman

Film info

Direction:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

3.1

Language:

German and English

Version:

OV

Festivals:

32. FILMKUNSTFEST MV (02.-07.05.2023)

29thVisioni Italiane (13.-19.11.2023)

Runtime:

15 min

Swimming Lesson

While Mrs. Jacobs gives swimming lessons to the young caregiver Nadja in her retirement home, the two develop a quiet attraction to each other. Even though the old woman secretly longs for it, she struggles with social values and her own feelings, which deny her this closeness.

Credits

Cast:

Katharina Nesytowa

Friederike Frerichs

Alexander Ullmann

Script:

Lisa Hürtgen

Olivia Requat

Camera:

Gisela Günther

Editing:

Laura Hölzel

Producer:

Lisa Hürtgen

Sound:

Manfredi Rignanese

Music:

Andreas Schmidgen

Film info

Direction:

Lisa Hürtgen

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

9.57 min

Monte Kali

After the sudden collapse of Monte Kali’s core, the miners are swallowed by darkness. Trapped in the silence of the deep earth, they start to remember. One of them is haunted by images far beyond what any prayer can reconcile.

Credits

Cast:

Oli Bigalke

Julia Borchardt

Script:

Jozefien Van der Aelst

Editing:

Jozefien Van der Aelst

Camera:

Edoardo Scussel

Producer:

Johny Venegas

Film info

Direction:

Jozefien Van der Aelst

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

24 min

Fabrik

Shot entirely in Digital Infrared, FABRIK follows a lone humanoid creature, fighting for survival in a forsaken world – living off oil-spills from self-operating factories. Her quest for oil takes her across the desert and into an unknown world of steam and machines.

Credits

Cast:

Josephine Lange

Lukas Hanus

Script:

Sverre Aune

Rocío Díaz Freire

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Sanhah Lee

Producer:

Lasse Holdhus

Sound:

Shadi Farid

Film info

Direction:

Sverre Aune

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Non

Version:

OV

Festivals:

18th edition of ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival (14.-16.04.2023)

PrevYou (16.-17.06.2023)

Randfilmfest Kassel (15.-18.09.2023)

Crossings Filmfestival (28.09.-01.10.2023)

17. THESS INTERNATIONAL SHORTS (01.-21.10.2023)

Tbilisi International Student Film Festival (10.-15.10.2023)

Berliner Porn Film Festival (24.-29.10.2023)

GRRL HAUS Cinema Festival (29.01.2024)

INTERNATIONAL TOUR FILM FESTIVAL (02.-06.10.2024)

Runtime:

19 min

Liguster

A never-ending line of identical, single-unit houses next to each other, neatly separated by privet hedges – Ligustrum. This world is made for families, consisting of father, mother and child, of course. He’s got the job, she’s got the kids. That’s the way it has always been. Even when GRETA gives birth, not to a human child, but to a regular vacuum cleaner, nothing changes in this world’s beautiful order. Greta may be stunned, but everyone else is thrilled. A vacuum cleaner is very handy! And after all, motherhood is the most important thing for a woman. Plus the household. She’s expected to take care of the little machine just like a normal kid. Greta wants to fit in, to play along, but the more she tries, the more she understands the absurdity of her world, where the norms are suffocating and from which there is no way out.

Credits

Cast:

Sophie Roeder

Roger Bonjour

Script:

Jonas Nemela

Camera:

Hanife Koch

Editing:

Vanessa Heeger

Producer:

Jonas Nemela

Sound:

Andre Goeters

Tondesign:

Thomas Wallmann

Music:

Mark Barden

Film info

Direction:

Jonas Nemela

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH in Ko-Produktion mit dem Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Festivals:

23. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival (22.-27.03.2023)

19. FEST — New Directors | New Films Festival in Espinho (19.-26.06.2023)

PrevYou (16.-17.06.2023)

24. LES UTOPIALES (01.-05.11.2023)

Runtime:

20 min

Mudhole

It is dawn in Moddergat, a small coastal village in the Netherlands in the year 2039. There is little time left for the four-headed delegation of the International Climate Tribunal to prepare the human sacrifice that will keep the dangers of climate change at bay. But when the tide is high and the world is watching, the sacrifice asks himself: is it really worth dying for?

Credits

Cast:

Milan Weitenberg

Julia Schellekens

Eline Schellekens

Robert Schellekens

Tineke van Veen

Elisabeth Köller

Lena Heiß

Justin Schellekens

Script:

Job Antoni

Camera:

Felix Schuster

Editing:

Maria Gans

Producer:

Elisabeth Köller

Sound:

Justin Schellekens

Tondesign:

Vadim Muehlberg

Music:

Justin Schellekens

Film info

Direction:

Job Antoni

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Dutch

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

25 min

The Sky Is a Square

Chelar is upset. Upset with climate change, upset with the rules of her classmate’s games and upset with the absence of any real connection with nature. So Chelar decides to become a tree. What starts as a spontanious act soon becomes a mind changing example for her friend Solvei and the adults around her.

Credits

Cast:

Helen Luise Höhle

Maïmouna Mbacké

Cito Andresen

Script:

Agnes Maagaard

Camera:

Karl Neubart

Editing:

David Vogel

Producer:

Maximilian Seidel

Sound:

Moritz Geiser

Music:

Frederik Heidemann

Film info

Direction:

Agnes Maagaard

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

12 min

Neophyt im Morgenrot

A scientist is on the road to take measurements in a harsh mountain landscape. Always in opposition to his observations, an encounter with a mythical creature changes his perception. He discovers the sensual and subtle of his environment and delves deeper into this experience.

Credits

Cast:

Florian Denk

Taylor Rose

Javier Hernàndes

Script:

Paul Rohlfs

Camera:

Paul Rohlfs

Producer:

Paul Rohlfs

Kostüm (Credit):

Theresa Hoskins

Editing:

Paul Rohlfs

Sound:

Giorgi Korkashvili

Tondesign:

Louis McGuire

Film info

Direction:

Paul Rohlfs

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

30 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 & 2.0

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

14 min

All we chose to believe in

Disappointed by his life so far, the late thirties Tolga visits his hometown in the Ruhr area and finds himself in the kitchens and living rooms of his shattered family present. He stoically counters the subtle attempts of the others to include him in their own unavoidable life plans. But gradually a feeling of rootedness spreads in him...

Credits

Cast:

Tolgahan Kaftan

Alfred Hartung

Sercan Bilinç Güvenışık

Güneş Arslan

Yadigar Uzun

Alexander Gregor

Ayfer Atay

Script:

Övünç Güvenışık

Camera:

Paul Maximilian Näther

Editing:

Övünç Güvenışık

Producer:

Övünç Güvenışık

Simona Kostova

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Jörg Daniel

Film info

Direction:

Övünç Güvenışık

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,87

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,87

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, Turkish

Version:

OV

Runtime:

30 min